Cyclone 'Mocha' damages over 236 houses in Mizoram

Aizawl: At least 236 houses and eight refugee camps have been damaged after super cyclone Mocha’ struck several parts of Mizoram, officials said on Monday.

A total of 5,749 people in more than 50 villages were affected by the powerful winds on Sunday, they said.

However, there



were no reports of fatalities.

Super cyclone Mocha’ made landfall along the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts on Sunday, after intensifying into the equivalent of a Category-5 storm, causing extensive damage to the southeastern coastlines and forcing the evacuation of over five lakh people in low lying areas.